MIT Professor Accused by US of Hiding Extensive Ties to Chinese Regime

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Killian Court and Great Dome in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14, 2017. MIT launched its venture capital fund, The Engine in 2016 and invested $25 million as a limited partner. andymw91/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been accused of failing to disclose his work for groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while he was accepting grant money from U.S. agencies, the Justice Department said on Jan. 14.

Gang Chen, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with making false statements on a tax return, committing wire fraud, and failing to file a foreign bank account report, the DOJ said in a statement.